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Ongoing debate about workplaces and more market moves: What’s hot in law this week (4–8 Dec)
As big-name partners and teams continue to move between Australia’s largest firms, conversation continues about what the working environment will look like for lawyers in 2024. Plus, a high-profile defamation trial continues to dominate headlines. Here is your weekly round-up of the biggest stories for Australia’s legal profession.
Lawyers Weekly
For the week from 4 December to 8 December, these were the 10 most-read stories on Lawyers Weekly (in case you missed them):
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Some social media users watching Brittany Higgins’ tense and emotional cross-examination unfold has put the live stream at risk of being pulled down, the judge has warned.
In its 11th and final cash rate call for the year, and after increasing the cash rate by 25 basis points in November, the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to leave the cash rate target unchanged at 4.35 per cent.
BigLaw player Mills Oakley has continued a year of significant growth, adding another five senior professionals, including four partners, from various national and SME rivals (some of whom have brought team members with them). The firm, its CEO says, is playing the “longer game”.
A Melbourne solicitor who allegedly held trust money without authorisation and created a false invoice for his fees has failed to convince a tribunal to throw out the disciplinary charges.
FEATURE: Following a recent Fair Work Commission decision ruling in favour of an employer declining a request to work from home full-time, employment lawyers and legal recruiters have discussed the future of flexibility in law – and whether employers will be able to mandate full-time onsite work moving forward.
National law firm Gilbert + Tobin has appointed a partner from fellow BigLaw practice Clayton Utz, who will serve as the firm’s co-head of restructuring and insolvency and has brought her team with her.
FEATURE: Following the pandemic-induced boom in hybrid working and deserted CBDs on Fridays, which elements of post-pandemic working will stick in the legal profession? Some insist Fridays in the office are back, while others are adamant Thursday will remain the new Friday.
Fiery claims of an election scheme, concerns about a recorded conversation, and a live stream viewer fed up with the judge’s coughing closed out the second week of Bruce Lehrmann’s case.
Brittany Higgins, appearing as a witness for Network Ten, said she went public with her story after a media program accused former attorney-general Christian Porter of a history of sexist and inappropriate behaviour towards women.
FEATURE: Early last week, the request for tender to re-establish the Whole of Australian Government Legal Services Panel went live, and the Attorney-General’s warning of the imperative for panel firms to meet pro bono targets will likely be weighing on those seeking government work.
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